Sentences with phrase «more than priests»

Fathers abuse their children more than priests in society today.

It is a world in which beggars are more at home than the wealthy, sinners more than the righteous, children more than their parents, and clowns and fools more than priests and scribes.

There are a number of places where Christ or His actions are described in sacrificial terms, [4] but the title «Priest» is never given, and generally these passages emphasise Christ's role as victim more than priest.

Not exact matches

The central thesis of CEO - Speak is no more shocking than the discovery that politicians like to give speeches, sports stars talk in clichés and priests tend to sermonize.

What the priest did was in direct conflict with everything I was taught by two different orders of nuns and more than one Jesuit priest.

It may come as a surprise to Father Freelance, but after more than four decades of priest - celebrants trying to be Johnny Carson, Bob Barker, Alex Trebek, or whomever, this act is getting very old.

Thus, the priest (perhaps mistakenly) judged that giving her communion may do more harm than good.

«Love the sinner — hate the sin» I thought was what Christianity pushed, but as we can see from this priest's actions Christianity is nothing more than hollow rhetoric when it comes to love and compassion.

The cardinal accepted that abusing priests were routinely moved from parish to parish rather than being defrocked, and the word of clergy was often taken as more trustworthy than children claiming they were abused.

Likely more than Catholic priests since the rate of abuse of priests is < 2 % and Atheists being in the general public where the rate is 7 % could likely be expected to mirror that statistic or worse since they have less moral bounds.

The people of the Catholic Church are about so, so, so much more than the child abuse scandal or the celibacy of priests.

A Nicaraguan Catholic priest and politician who defied Pope John Paul II to help teach more than half... more than half... MoreMore

Too many priests simply want laypeople to submit to church authority and tradition, and too many laypeople regard Orthodoxy as nothing more than a collection of rituals from which they pick and choose what works for them.

I know the nuns do more for the church than a priest, bishop or pope can do.

Unfortunately, many priests have concluded that their ecclesiastical superiors now regard their «vocation» as little more than a job.

A priest in New York has temporarily stepped down from his position over accusations he took more than... more than... MoreMore

A Syrian priest in the city of Aleppo has said things are worse than they ever have been since war in... More

The priest had been part of the Clonard Monastery in west Belfast, and worked for peace between Irish Protestants and Catholics for more than thirty years.

A Nicaraguan Catholic priest and politician who defied Pope John Paul II to help teach more than half a million Nicaraguans how to read has died aged 82.

The have committed more crimes in a week than all the priest put together.

He proposed a new indictment of priestly celibacy, pointing out that by the year 2000 «more than one million» «above - average» Catholics will not have existed because the forty thousand «on average, above average» priests living in 1900 could not marry and have children.

By the way there is far more of this behavior occuring by married men than by celibate priests in society.

Posted today «NEW STATS: 10 % of Catholic priests were pedophiles and still counting, 20 to 200 times more than general population» at http://cityofangels8.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-stats-10-percent-of-catholic.html Written by, me, a Journalist / Survivor of pedophile priest crime in Los Angeles.

These women want Jesuit priests to pay for their birth control... what could be more sleazy than that?

The priest - Father Joseph Pavanivel Jeyapaul of Ootacamund, India - served in a diocese in Crookston, Minnesota, for a little more than a year in 2004 and 2005, according to church documents unearthed in a lawsuit related to the case.

There are way more good priests than bad.

Why the RCC thought their priests were above the law and why they cared more for the reputation of their priests more than for the innocent children that suffered at the hands of these horrible men is beyond me.

But more than 1.5 billion Orthodox and Catholics, 75 percent of Christendom, believe that Christ Himself gave the apostles, their successors and priests the ability to forgive sin on His behalf and His Church.

It's recounted as one incident (told twice), but scholars think it was likely a pattern in which he antagonized the priests and attempted to take more power than they wanted him to have.

After all, he probably would not accept them from a priest known to espouse a more liberal philosophy than his, especially as that person would probably not be a «Real American» in his and Sarah's eyes.

So while I personally wouldn't categorically state that possession does or doesn't exist, my experience tells me that people who behave in these ways are more in need of a specially - trained mental health professional than they are in need of a specially - trained priest.

It's funny how nuns would tell me far more about religion and the HISTORY of the faith than any hundred priests, even when directly asked.

As a priest, I am forced into more encounters with death than most civilians outside of the medical profession.

Meanwhile, for more than a year, we went to Mass every Sunday, and every holy day of obligation, sitting where we knew we could get in line to approach the celebrant priest (not a deacon or extraordinary minister) with our arms folded to receive a blessing.

The question is not really about a celibate priest loving God more than a married one; that is disingenuous and rather unhelpful.

I will respond simply to two of his points which touch the central point of the original article: first, whether or not vowed chastity (or «celibacy») can enable a fuller living - out of the loving of Christ the priest and second, whether the Council Fathers in Presbyterorum ordinis intended more than simply defending celibacy in the Latin rite as a «useful discipline».

Might the priest facing in the same direction as the faithful be more expressive in some ways of the meaning of the Old Testament priesthood rather than the priesthood of Christ?

The whole idea of the re-creation of the last days of Jesus» life and the supper comes forth so much more clearly in the new mass than in the Tridentine mass, in which the priest is praying privately and you are just involved in your own little private space.

«There is one thing amongst all others, the loss of which is more deplorable than words can express; We allude to the most holy Sacrifice in which Jesus Christ, both Priest and Victim, daily offers Himself to His Father, through the ministry of His priests on earth.

In addition, more than 100 associate deacons, priests and bishops find their home in our spirit, and live itout wherever they are posted.

Canon Jeremy Pemberton, a Church of England (C of E) priest for more than 30 years, was also denied a licence to officiate in the diocese of Southwell and Nottingham - which left him unable to take up a job offer at the King's Mill Hospital in Nottinghamshire.

The good Samaritan who cared for the man who had fallen among the robbers did not say: let the police do that, or, let the priest take care of him, for he has more time than I, and if they don't do it, why should I?

Our priests are far more likely to mistake their confessional for a shrink's couch than a sadist's dungeon.

Pedophiles like children, and anyone who was ever raised Catholic will know that priests just had way more access to boys than girls.

More than 70 priests attended Thomas Vander Woude's funeral at Holy Trinity Church, including his eldest son, Thomas Jr., who officiated at the Mass and delivered the homily.

Nevertheless, as in the case of priests, artists and perhaps even true politicians, more is required from the physician than merely a paid service, namely his own person and his ethics, which is part of his work.

When my father died, shortly after I was ordained a priest, I discovered that I had many more questions than answers and that some very safe assumptions about the goodness and permanence of life had been shattered.

Or, as he put it with his penchant for startling comparisons: «A priest from Thebes would probably have felt more at home at the Council of Trent two thousand years after Thebes had vanished than Sir Isaac Newton at a modem undergraduate physics society.»

The Legion has more than 600 priests and 2,500 seminarians in some twenty countries, while Regnum Christi has more than 65,000 members around the world.

1 Timothy 3:5 means: «Of one wife»... The meaning is not that every bishop should have a wife (for St. Paul himself had none), but that no one should be admitted to the holy orders of bishop, priest, or deacon, who had been married more than once.